-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Apache Ant Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Ant 1.9.7.
Version 1.9.7 is mostly a bug fix release but adds a few new features like support for arbitrary filesyste resources in <scp> and initial support for Java9 modules. Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool that helps building software. Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Ant download site: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi http://ant.apache.org/srcdownload.cgi When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release. Changes in this version include: Changes that could break older environments: - ------------------------------------------- * <exec> and <apply> used to ignore the dir attribute if it was the same as the current working directory. They now no longer do, which changes the behavior for vmlauncher="false" which would have used the project's basedir rather than the current working directory in that case. Bugzilla Report 58555 Fixed bugs: - ----------- * ZipOutputStream could cause an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when adding entries with comments. This never happens when using Ant as a build tool but may affect users using Ant's zip package as a library. * <gunzip> and <bunzip2> didn't work for non-filesystem resources. * <jar> ignored the zip64Mode attribute when creating manifest-only jars. This resulted in jar files that couldn't be read by Java5. Bugzilla Report 58428 * <untar> will now detect GNU tar longname/link records even if they don't use the names used by GNU tar itself. star is known to create archives of that kind. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-324 * <script> could fail to find javax.script on JDK9 with Jigsaw. Bugzilla Report 58271 * <import> sometimes failed to normalize file names which could lead to files getting imported twice which in turn could lead to targets getting executed twice. Bugzilla Report 58886 * TarInputStream now properly extraxt directory entries with a non-zero size. * <union> would drop file resources pointing to the same file but using different names. Bugzilla Report 57965 * <replace>'s result was undefined when using the replacefilterfile attribute and some keys inside the properties files have been substrings of other keys. Keys are now sorted by descending size. Bugzilla Report 58997 * Ant fails to run when arguments contain double-quote character. Bugzilla Report 58898 * Ant fails to run if ANT_HOME contains a double-quote character. Bugzilla Report 58874 * Definer's way to parse URLs from classloader breaks with recent Java 9 builds (b108). Bugzilla Report 59130 * <ant> and <antcall> now preserve the ext status set by an <exit> task. Bugzilla Report 59228 Other changes: - -------------- * <scp> now supports (filesystem-only) resource collections in addition to filesets. Bugzilla Report 50769 * The <http> condition has a new optional attribute followRedirects. Bugzilla Report 58840 * <java> now supports Java9 modules. https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/15 * <javac> now supports Java9 modules. https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/16 * <sshexec> and <scp> have two new attributes serverAliveInterval and serverAliveCountMax that can be used to keep a intermediaries from closing idle connections. Bugzilla Report 59162 For complete information on Ant, including instructions on how to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Ant website: http://ant.apache.org/ Stefan Bodewig, on behalf of the Apache Ant community -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlcNOIkACgkQohFa4V9ri3LBpgCfSPIp2ZtL39t+mzHNTkz5dKVV GewAoNcGizz5d3jQlXtUxhHyywJ5Gw+2 =p1bh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
